Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A day or so after the floods have receded the washed up specimens will have dispersed and only a few will remain in the débris for a longer period.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

For not once in two years does a wanderer chance to come this way, and long before that time the wolves and the vultures will have dispersed the bones of the fallen.

From The Poor Plutocrats by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

He asked her, "Canst thou cause me to catch them?" and she answered, "Yes; but, an thou wait till to-morrow, they will have dispersed; so I will deliver them to thee to-night."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 12 [Supplement] by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir